"lest ye be damned to an eternity of tickling"

Tickleyou · Jul 29, 2015

"lest ye be damned to an eternity of tickling" not mine

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seanwoj · Jul 29, 2015

Good find.

C.A.B. · Jul 29, 2015

That's an engraving by Gustave Doré for the 1870 reprinting of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy (aka Dante's Inferno) written between 1308-1321. It depicts simonists (clerics who sell absolution and other priceless heavenly favors for money) who are buried upside-down in holes that resemble baptism bowls with only their feet exposed to be burned eternally in suffocation and emulation.

As an aside, one of my Watchers on DA challenged me a while back to emulate Doré with a Dante tickling hell pic...

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BlasterMaster · Jul 29, 2015

It depicts simonists (clerics who sell absolution and other priceless heavenly favors for money) who are buried upside-down in holes that resemble baptism bowls with only their feet exposed to be burned eternally in suffocation and emulation.

But he loves you.

(sits back and waits for someone to get the reference)

stampstock · Jul 29, 2015

Well sit forward again cuz here I am.

milagros317 · Jul 30, 2015

Very interesting engraving. Thanks for the explanation, C.A.B.

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